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2) Mindbend
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English
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A “superb, suspense-packed” (Detroit News) novel about one man’s attempt to combat the greed and corruption of a massive pharmaceutical company, from the #1 bestselling author “master of the medical thriller” (The New York Times)
“A storyteller of the most daring imagination . . . chillingly entertaining and thought-provoking.”—Associated Press
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“A storyteller of the most daring imagination . . . chillingly entertaining and thought-provoking.”—Associated Press
When...
3) Autonomous
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can't otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they become unsafe or insane. Hot on her trail, an unlikely pair: Eliasz, a brooding military agent, and his robotic...
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
A medical thriller featuring Dr. Edward Armstrong, a researcher developing an anti-depressant drug. Under pressure from his backers to complete the research, he experiments on himself with disastrous effects. But with millions of dollars at stake, the backers hush up the results and when Armstrong's sweetheart, Kimberly Stewart, decides to blow the whistle, she puts both their lives in jeopardy. By the author of Fatal Cure.
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Publisher
Archway Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Steve August is lucky to get a job at the world-famous Angion Laboratory in Boston, headed by George MacGregor, a prominent scientist turned entrepreneur. The young neurosurgical resident never expected such an honor. He accepts the position and, in an effort to impress, works to the point of exhaustion. Half-asleep at his desk late one night, Steve overhears company secrets he should never have heard. Steve can't help but investigate, yet the more...
7) Bluescreen
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Series
Mirador volume 1
Language
English
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Bluescreen is a stunning deluge of imagination, filled with suspense and twists and unforgettable characters. This book is just plain awesome. -James Dashner, bestselling author of The Maze Runner From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence, comes the first book in a new sci-fi-noir series. Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. That connection is a djinni-a smart device...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When a once promising young writer agrees to ghostwrite a famous particle physicist's memoir, his livelihood is already in jeopardy: plagued by debt after failing to deliver a novel, he's grown distant from his wife--a successful A.I. researcher--and is haunted by an overwhelming dread he describes as "The Mist." Desperate for relief, he undergoes an experimental, psychedelic treatment and emerges to find his world transformed: joy suffuses every...
Author
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
""There is lyricism in the language of Ms. Ermelino's splendid collection that lulls us, line after seductive line, from the mundane to the menacing. Malafemmena is the work of a bold and original writer."--Gay Talese "What Louisa Ermelino knows about the heart could fill a book and has. The unadorned authenticity of her prose is so powerful, it gave me whiplash. I read Malafemmena in one sitting and wanted more, more, more. The writer's a genius,...
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Series
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
"When unethical drug researchers discover that they can induce amazing mental powers using psychotropic drugs, ... this gets the attention of Aerune mac Audelaine, lord of the dark Unseleighe Sidhe," and both sides are threatened by the existence of Eric Banyon.
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Series
Jane Lawless mysteries volume 12
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
13) Above the paw
Author
Series
Paw enforcement volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When college students fall seriously ill after ingesting a club drug, Officer Megan Luz and her K-9 partner Brigit go undercover to infiltrate the drug ring and are led in an unexpected and dangerous direction that places their lives at risk.
14) Bliss
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Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
There's a drug called Bliss wiping away memories in Feral City. But a good-hearted young man with a deathly sick child makes a horrible deal: he will become hitman for the gods providing the drug--and possibly lose everything in the process. A critically acclaimed examination of forgiveness and family rarely seen in comics--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"For more than a decade, Jeremy Robert Johnson has been bubbling under the surface of both literary and genre fiction. His short stories present a brilliantly dark and audaciously weird realm where cosmic nightmares collide with all-too-human characters and apocalypses of all shapes and sizes loom ominously. In "Persistence Hunting," a lonely distance runner is seduced into a brutal life of crime with an ever-narrowing path for escape. In "When Susurrus...
16) Born to darkness
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Fighting destiny volume 1
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English
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Michelle "Mac" Mackenzie, a super-human "Greater-Than" with unique abilities, teams up with a former Navy SEAL Shane Laughlin to stop the spread of a highly addictive drug called Destiny, which gives anyone the same abilities as a "Greater-Than."
17) The killing joke
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Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
For years, The Joker, Clown Prince of Crimes, has been caught in a dance of violence with his greatest nemesis, the Batman. Escaping Arkham Asylum, he plots his most lethal caper. This will be the ultimate punch line... his killing joke. Meanwhile, as Batman and Batgirl pursue the ruthless criminals of Gotham City, Commissioner James Gordon and Detective Harvey Bullock take on a cartel distributing "giggle sniff", a drug derived from a venom created...
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Series
[Faith Herbert Origin Story volume 1
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English
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Description
When she's not hanging out with her two best friends, Matt and Ches, Faith Herbert is volunteering at the local animal shelter or obsessing over the long-running teen drama The Grove. So far, her senior year has been spent trying to sort out her feelings for her maybe-crush Johnny and making plans to stay close to Grandma Lou after graduation. And there's the small matter of recently discovering she can fly. Then the fictional world of The Grove relocates...
19) Blood world
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A drug that makes the blood of carriers a fountain of youth, a psychopath who doesn't care how many bodies he leaves in his wake, and an LAPD detective hopelessly compromised by a dark secret. Together, they're an explosive mix that's going to shatter the city of Los Angeles into a million corpuscles. The most valuable commodity on earth is the blood of "carriers." These young people hold within them a virtual fountain of youth. Those with the right...
20) Jackal: #3
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Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When a Jake is offered a chance to race in China for a world class BMX team he is not sure that he wants to go--but when one of his friends asks him to smuggle a mysterious drug called Dragonbone that can prolong life to her dying mother in China he feels he has to take the trip, whatever the danger.
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